Sep 8
Posted by Sabina Bhate in Health Law, Nutrition, Public Health, obesity | Comments off
Wall Street Journal- 31 August, 2010
Author: Janet Adamy
“In preliminary guidelines released last week, the Food and Drug Administration said the scope of the law stretches beyond restaurants to encompass airlines, trains, grocery-store food courts, movie theaters and convenience stores that qualify as chains. Within grocery stores, the agency said, it is considering including salad bars, store bakeries, pizza bars and delicatessens.”
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Sep 7
Posted by Edwina Light in Children, Health information and education, Nutrition, Public Health, obesity | Comments off
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010;164(9):878-879. doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.152
Editorial: J. Michael McGinnis
“Marketing works. This was a basic finding of the 2006 report of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Food Marketing to Children and Youth. That report, Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity? presented a comprehensive and rigorous assessment of all qualified scientific studies published on the relationship between food and beverage marketing patterns and practices and the dietary attitudes, beliefs, practices, and nutrition-related status of children and youth. The committee concluded that the evidence supported a causal relationship between television advertising targeted to children and teenagers and their food preferences, short-term food consumption, and—for children—longer-term dietary patterns. With respect to marketing’s direct and causal association with overweight and obesity, the Institute of Medicine committee determined that the studies that were assessed were not long enough to offer a formal finding one way or the other…”
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Aug 30
Posted by Sabina Bhate in Global and International Health, obesity | Comments off
Globe and Mail- 29 August, 2010
“Nearly half of adult Brazilians are overweight and about 15 per cent are obese, Brazil’s IBGE social statistics agency said on Friday, citing the results of a national study carried out with the Health Ministry.”
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Aug 28
Posted by Nancy Lentz in New South Wales Health Services, obesity | Comments off
SMH, By Julie Robotham, 28 August 2010
“Hospital emergency departments need bigger blood pressure cuffs, larger beds and more lifting devices such as overhead hoists to manage the growing proportion of patients who are obese or morbidly obese, a study says. The study documents for the first time in Australia doctors’ and nurses’ difficulties in treating such people.”
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Aug 25
Posted by Edwina Light in Health Law, Health information and education, Nutrition, obesity | Comments off
The Heart Foundation, media release, 18 August 2010
“The Heart Foundation today called on State and Federal Governments to legislate for nutrition information on the menus of cafés, fast food restaurants and snack food outlets. Speaking at the NSW Fast Food Forum held at the State Library in Sydney, Tony Thirlwell, Heart Foundation CEO – NSW, revealed the results of a Heart Foundation review of key menu labelling studies and outlined the charity’s recommendations. “There are indications that people can significantly underestimate the calories/kilojoules in unhealthy food. People have the right to know what they’re eating so that they can make an informed choice,” Mr Thirlwell said. Research showed that parents chose meals for their kids that were on average 428kJ (102 calories) less when they had all the facts. Other studies tracking sales data showed that consumers who usually bought higher calorie/kilojoules foods reduced their calories per transaction by 26%.”
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Jul 25
Posted by Lisa Csillag in Global and International Health, Health Law, Nutrition, Public Health, obesity | Comments off
BMJ 2010;341:c3979
Author: Aser García Rada
“Authorities in Spain have agreed a policy to limit the availability of junk food in public school canteens and vending machines in a bid to promote healthy eating and tackle the growing rates of overweight and obesity among children.”
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Jul 25
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Case Law, Death, Health Services, Negligence, obesity | Comments off
Fox News, AP, 23 July 2010
“The lawsuit filed in Ramsey County District Court says Max DeVries was sedated and waiting for routine surgery at St. Joseph’s Hospital when Velco straps holding the 300-pound patient failed. It says DeVries rolled off the table and hit his head last March. He died in April after suffering a massive stroke. His son, Shawn DeVries, says it’s a tragedy that could have been avoided. The Star Tribune says the family contends the hospital lacked appropriate facilities and equipment, including wide enough tables and adequate restraints.”
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Jul 21
Posted by Edwina Light in Bioethics, Health information and education, Medical Boards and Associations, Public Health, obesity | Comments off
Annals of Family Medicine 8:354-358 (2010) doi: 10.1370/afm.1140
Author: Howard Brody
“The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has recently been criticized for accepting a large corporate donation from Coca-Cola to fund patient education on obesity prevention. Conflicts of interest, whether individual or organizational, occur when one enters into arrangements that reasonably tempt one to put aside one’s primary obligations in favor of secondary interests, such as financial self-interest. Accepting funds from commercial sources that seek to influence physician organizational behavior in a direction that could run counter to the public health represents one of those circumstances and so constitutes a conflict of interest. Most of the defenses offered by AAFP are rationalizations rather than ethical counterarguments. Medical organizations, as the public face of medicine and as formulator of codes of ethics for their physician members, have special obligations to adhere to high ethical standards.”
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Jul 21
Posted by Edwina Light in Bioethics, Health information and education, Medical Boards and Associations, Public Health, obesity | Comments off
Annals of Family Medicine 8:359-361 (2010) doi: 10.1370/afm.1146
Author: Lori Heim
“The new Consumer Alliance agreement between the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and The Coca-Cola Company provides a valuable opportunity to illustrate AAFP’s adherence to its ethical foundation, demonstrate the AAFP’s commitment to serving physicians and the public, and maintain the trust Americans put in their family physicians and the organization that represents them.”
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Jul 17
Posted by Lisa Csillag in Children, Public Health, obesity | Comments off
BMJ 2010;341:c3074
Authors: Russel M Viner, Edna Roche, Sabine A Maguire, Dasha E Nicholls
“The suggestion that childhood obesity may raise child protection concerns has generated increasing media and professional interest. The British Medical Association annual meeting in 2007 rejected a motion suggesting that childhood obesity in under 12s should result in legal protection for the child and parents being charged with neglect. However, a BBC survey of 50 consultant paediatricians that month reported that obesity had been a factor in at least 20 child protection cases in the previous year.”
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